Today, Vasco Data Security announced an integration between its VACMAN and DIGIPASS authentication products and Adobe LiveCycle Rights Management ES2, enabling users to leverage Vasco security tokens to access protected, encrypted documents.
There was recently another news story about a PDF document not being redacted properly. As a result, sensitive information leaked out. We’ve covered this topic before, but we’ll cover it from a different angle this time…
Well, you’ve experienced us in print…now see us in these exciting, new moving pictures! Listen to John Landwehr and John B Harris discuss Adobe’s key information assurance capabilities and how they can help you achieve content-centric security with products that provide integrity, confidentiality, authentication and privacy.
Some of our savvy readers and users may have already noticed a dialog box asking them to download a “security settings update from Adobe Systems”:
No, it’s not the latest patch. In fact, by clicking Yes, Acrobat and Reader 9+ users are downloading an update to the Adobe Approved Trust List (AATL), a list of trusted digital certificates that provides users with better assurances that the digitally signed documents they are receiving can be trusted. This is visible to document recipients as a green check mark or blue ribbon, depending on the type of digital signature.
In this update, four certificates, two each from Entrust and QuoVadis respectively, have been added to the AATL…
On April 13, 2010 – Adobe released critical updates to Acrobat and Reader. All users are recommended to update their systems to the these releases as soon as possible.
Today’s post will cover a variety of other other improvements we’ve made to LiveCycle Rights Management ES2.
First, extending our previous capabilities to revoke documents and offer version notification, we now offer out-of-the-box “Revoke and Replace” functionality. By using LiveCycle Content Services as your document repository, you can make sure that every “major version” that is checked in supersedes any version people may have cached locally elsewhere. More info:
Second, our Extension for Office now offers dynamic visible watermarks much like we have offered previously for PDF files viewed within Acrobat and Reader. This means that you can exchange protected Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files that visibly display the recipient’s name, email address, and the time they opened the document. More info:
Third, for developers out there who need to create policies programmatically, we’ve offered significant improvements in how our orchestration APIs work. More info:
Finally, customers have asked for additional flexibility in managing audit event records that track the history of a document. With the latest release you can export, archive, and delete event history specifying who has opened, modified, printed, etc, your protected documents. More info:
Need more information on how your organization can effectively manage and protect your intellectual property? Further information can be obtained at http://www.adobe.com/go/rm or by
contacting Adobe